Make no mistake: Dean Koontz is a great author.
Top of the tree for many years, this fella has written four series of novels, more than 80 standalone books and 74 works of short fiction, blending elements of suspense and horror into his tales as well as large doses of spirituality.
Believe me when I say Koontz is a gem of a writer.
Yet despite masses of publicity of late claiming the opposite, he is not a prophet who predicted the current Covid-19 outbreak.
His book The Eyes of Darkness is flying off the shelves right now, with some believing Covid is foreshadowed in its chapters because a deadly virus Koontz called ‘Wuhan 400’ is mentioned.
Biological weapon
First published in 1981, the book describes the disease as ‘man-made microorganisms’ that only afflict human beings. It also goes on to tell how a Chinese scientist came to the US with a disk that contained a blueprint for China's most important and dangerous new biological weapon’.
Conspiracy theorists will love Ko...
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